Apparatus for making heads for tearing dolls



June 5, 1962 D. COHN APPARATUS FOR MAKING HEADS FOR TEARING DOLLS Original Filed March 6, 1958 FIG.3

INVENTOR. BY pal 1d Cohn 3,037,246 Patented June 5, 1962 l Tine 3,037,246 APPARATUS FUR MAKING HEADS FQR "HEARING DOLLS David Cohn, Pound Ridge, N.Y., assignor to Model Plastics Corperation, White Plains, NY a corporation of New York Original application Mar. 6, 1958, Ser. No. 719,655. Divided and this application Jan. 6, 1959, Ser. No.

1 Claim. (Cl. 18--39) Heads for tearing dolls have been molded with tear openings adjacent to and on opposite sides of the bridge of the nose, and flexible tubes leading to the openings for carrying water thereto had to have ends thereof inserted into such openings and anchored thereto. Such anchoring connections have been difiicult to make and to maintain.

It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a highly improved apparatus or mold for making a doll head of the character described, with improved means for attaching water tubes to the head for bringing water, simulating tears, to tear holes.

Yet a further object of this invention is to provide a highly improved strong, rugged and durable apparatus of the character described, for making a tearing doll head which shall be relatively inexpensive to manufacture, and which shall be practical to a high degree in use.

Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts, which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described, and of which the scope of invention will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings in which is shown an illustrative embodiment of this invention:

FIG. 1 is a partial horizontal cross-sectional view illustrating improved apparatus for, and method of, making a tearing doll head embodying the invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view similar to FIG. 1 but illustrating a portion of a tearing doll embodying the invention and provided with water tubes;

FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 2 but illustrating a modified construction;

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of a tearing doll head embodying the invention; and

FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the mold or apparatus for carrying out the inventive method.

Referring now in detail to the drawing, there is shown therein a tearing doll head embodying the invention, made by means of an improved mold 11.

The head 10 may be made of vinyl synthetic plastic and molded by the stock method or by the whirling method, or in any other suitable manner. Said head is hollow and has a front face portion 12, side face portion 13, a top 14, and a neck 15.

The front face portion includes a nose 16 having a bridge 17, a mouth 18 and integral hollow eye sockets 19. In accordance with the present invention, said head 10 is formed, adjacent the bridge 17 of the nose 16, and between the molded eye sockets 19, with a pair of integral inwardly extending nipples or tubes 20 having through passages 21.

Fitted into said tubes 20 are flexible conduits or elongated tubes 22 for carrying water to the passage 21, which are the tear openings. Water passing out of passages 21 simulate tears.

The tubes 22 may be cemented or adhered to the nipples 20 in any suitable manner.

In prior constructions, the heads were molded with through openings (without nipples) and there was great difiiculty experienced in attaching the water conduits and also difficulty in maintaining the connections, which easily loosened. The conduits 22 being received on the nipples for a substantial length as in the present invention, makes for a strong, easily accomplished, connection, which is not likely to get loose or break or disconnect.

In FIG. 3 there is shown a head 10a embodying the invention, similar to FIG. 2, except that the water tubes 2201 are inserted into the integral nipples 20a instead of being pulled over said nipples. Tubes 22a may either be inserted from the outside of the head, inwardly, or from the inside of the head, outwardly.

Said mold 11 may be of usual construction except that it is formed with a pair of inwardly extending horizontal pins 31, adjacent the bridge portion 32 of the nose of the mold. Thus, when the head is molded, a pair of closed tubes 33 are molded, as shown in FIG. 1. After the molded head is removed from the mold, the tips of tubes 33 are snipped or cut 0E, thereby forming the open nipples 20, shown in FIG. 2, to receive the tubes or conduits 22.

Mold 11 has a usual -face portion 34, head portion 35, neck portion 36, and portions 37 for molding the hollow sockets 19 of the doll head, as shown in the drawing.

It will thus be seen that there is provided a device in which the several objects of this invention are achieved and which is well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention, and as various changes might be made in the embodiment above set forth, it is to be understood that the matter set forth above, or shown in the accompanying drawings, is merely illustrative and is not to be interpreted in a limiting sense, the scope of the invention being delineated in the appended claim.

I claim:

A mold for a tearing doll comprising a one piece hollow doll-head shaped, metal, member, having an open neck portion, and provided with a nose portion and outwardly opening, hollow inwardly extending eye socket portions on opposite sides of the nose portion, adjacent the bridge of said nose portion, and said member being formed with a pair of rearwardly extending horizontal integral, parallel straight pins located at the bridge of the nose portion and between the eye socket portions, and said pins being tapered rearwardly and terminating short of the rear ends of the eye socket portions and being equally spaced from said eye socket portions, said pins being of circular transverse cross-section throughout.

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